Arts & Entertainment Here Are Some Historic Photos Of SoMa, Before Yerba Buena Existed Photographer Janet Delaney moved into SoMa as a student at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1978. At the time, the place she found at 62 Langton was some of the cheapest rent
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing This Weekend: An I-Beam Tribute at The Stud You've got to be of a certain age, and likely gay, to know what the I-Beam was. For the rest of you, it was a big, legendary dance club of the '70s and
SF News Check Out This Awesome '60s Sign Unearthed Beneath Awning In North Beach Friend of SFist Chad Fox just snapped this photo of a ca. 1968 sign for a hippie women's clothing boutique called Middle Earth at 1317 Grant Avenue in North Beach. Middle Earth, as
SF News Video: Inside San Francisco's Last Remaining Old-School Blacksmith Shop Driving around SoMa you've likely noticed the tiny shingled building, now dwarfed on all sides by condo towers and other modern structures, with the sign that says Klockars’ Blacksmith & Metal at 443
Arts & Entertainment Behold the Glorious (and Occasionally Gross) Relics Hidden in the GLBT Historical Society Archives Documentary filmmaker Michael Stabile, who chronicled San Francisco's birth as the Smut Capital of America in a short film last year — and who has brought us amazing archival footage of Dianne Feinstein railing
SF News Historical Hideaways: Bill Graham Discusses the 'Old' Fillmore We just came across this historic interview with legendary concert promoter Bill Graham, standing outside what is currently, and was originally, the Fillmore auditorium on Geary Street. This interview was likely shot sometime
misc San Francisco Was Once Lovingly Called 'The Smut Capital of America' Were you aware that the birth of hardcore pornography happened right here in San Francisco? Feel proud, kids. During the brief period of 1968 to 1972, the barriers fell for both strip clubs
SF News It's Your Last Day to Look Around the Old Transbay Terminal Today from noon to 4 p.m. you can take a tour (one per hour) of the 1939 building that used to be our transit hub and is now just a big, clunky,
SF News Historical Hideaways: The Both/And Club For your history lesson today, Haighteration takes us to 350 Divisidero, a vacant storefront that once played host to the Ike and Tina Turner Revue and Miles Davis when it lived an earlier
